AN: Just a short omake chapter
"SHUT THE HELL UP OR I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" The shout rang out and all 58 students, classes 1-A, B, and C, crammed on a single bus went dead silent. "The NEXT person to get out of their seat, or throw something, or hit someone, or even thinks about using their quirk gets detention with Aizawa-sensei for an ENTIRE WEEK! And if you pull this middle school bullshit at Might Tower you and your two closest friends will be SUSPENDED! I don't care whose class you're in!"
All of the students were staring down at their laps by the time Sugita was finished. Shota smirked, having not expected that in the least, but had been about ready to explode after letting the kids play around for an entire hour.
Now, Hizashi, Kan, Kayama, and Ishiyama were all staring at Sugita with different shocked expressions. Hizashi looked a little flushed, staring up at Sugita like she was his personal Goddess. Kan and Ishiyama seemed some level of pleasantly surprised where they'd turned around in their seats to look back at her, and Kayama was practically drooling.
Sugita settled back into her seat beside Hizashi once the kids quieted down to barely more than whispers. She gave her fellow teachers a toothy grin, flashing her little fangs.
"Sugitaaaaa!" Kayama drawled, "I'm so turned on."
"I'd be worried if you weren't turned on, Kayama," Sugita teased right back, making everyone, except Shota, laugh.
"Oh Sugita, yell at me like that," Kayama purred. She was sitting in the isle seat across from Sugita's and she leaned over, striking a provocative pose. Shota looked over from his seat beside Kayama. He'd drawn the short straw. As in, he'd been napping when everyone picked seats.
Sugita leaned over too, looked into Kayama's dark eyes and whispered in a deep voice, "shut the fuck up and sit down right here, or I'll have you expelled, Kayama-chan," as she patted her lap.
Kayama squealed like an excited teenage girl before launching herself at Sugita, except she met with Hizashi's boot as he shoved Kayama back into her seat.
"No Sugita! That's bad!" Hizashi bodied the elf-rat out of her spot and into his by the window before glaring over at Kayama who was holding her cheeks and squirming in her seat. Sugita was laughing quietly, and Shota suspected the entire thing had been to get Hizashi going. He rolled his eyes when Hizashi started lecturing her about what was appropriate behaviour while she snickered.
"I'm sorry, Yamada," she looked up at him with big, sad puppy eyes.
Hizashi instantly melted, grabbed her face and leaned toward her, "it's not your fault, Sugita. It's all that evil temptress, Midnight."
"Awe, you're so sweet and totally blind, Yamada," Sugita placed her hands over his, looking at him with hearts in her eyes as Kan and Ishiyama groaned from their seats in front of them. Both men were big enough that they needed most of the three-person seats to themselves.
"I'll kill anyone who touches my precious Sugita!" Hizashi proclaimed with passion. "I can't let Kayama taint you with her icky poison!" Kayama didn't even protest that, apparently too wrapped up in whatever disturbing fantasy she was likely imagining at that moment.
"You're like my overprotective, obsessed knight in shining armour, Yamada," they were holding hands and staring into each others' eyes now. This wasn't even as bad as some of the games they play to get people going. The kids sitting closest to the front were probably shitting themselves over it.
"And you're my little stalker, murder-angel," and with that they both started laughing as they broke apart.
"Oh man, check out this video one of the kids showed me earlier," and the two idiots spent the rest of the trip laughing over youtube shorts, just as loud as the kids had been before Sugita threatened all their lives.
Shota went to sleep.
A light pressure against his cheek startled Shota awake, and then someone was twisting and kicking in his grip. Was that… Sugita? He had in a chokehold? She was coughing and trying to tap out with a jelly pack she'd probably got from Hizashi. Shota's quirk stopped her from teleporting to safety.
After a good few seconds, he released her and she slid to the floor, coughing and hacking as she started crawling away. Shota stared down at her with an evil, toothy smile before stepping free of his sleeping bag. Sugita... Right... He twisted the little cap off the spout of the peach jelly protein pack, stood up, and planted a foot on Sugita's back, squishing her into the floor of the bus by the door. She whimpered, reaching for the door weakly as Shota ground his heel into her back. "Bad girl," he growled between slurps before bending at the waist to lean down over her, "no more messing around with Kayama." Sluuurrrrp. "Sugita, nod if you understand." She nodded a little frantically with a choked cry. "If you want something kinky, I'll gladly help you out... You don't want that, do you?" Much head shaking. "Are you going be good?" Shivering nods.
Shota straightened up and walked out, his free hand tucked in his pocket, boots barely making a sound on the hollow, metal floor, his expression as bored and bland as always.
All of the students and teachers were getting organized in the huge parking lot.
"Sugita-sensei!? Are you okay?!" Some of the students cried when she appeared before them, hunched over in her hero costume and looking pale.
"What did that mean old Eraser Head do to you?" Hizashi asked, petting her hair and making some of the girls squeal.
"Almost killed me. Why'd you guys think he'd be gentle if I were the one waking him up?" Sugita whined.
"Oh, it was actually just because you can teleport back to Recovery Girl," Kan spoke up from just across from them, smiling around his jutting fangs as Sugita groaned.
They ended up splitting the kids into ten per teacher, while Shota got the eight most polite and well-behaved of all the classes for his group. Which was in everyone's best interests really.
Then they were off exploring Might Tower for their first look at a hero agency. What a waste of an entire day, Shota thought bitterly while tuning out as much of the student's gushing as possible. Soon all the groups were being led away by eager tower employees that were happy to answer every inane question spewing out of the kid's lips.
Thankfully, the teachers were waved off for the most part and Shota ended up amusing himself by watching his husband, with an excited Sugita on his back, teleporting all around the massive room with the huge All Might statue, All Might displays, and information all over the room. It was set up like some kind of museum. Really, there was only one good thing in his entire place… Two good things.
Two good things that after about 15 minutes came to him, talking animatedly. They appeared right in front of him before they both crowded him in where he was leaning on the rail of the large platform that looked down over the area these two had just been exploring. Shota couldn't even be annoyed with them as they seamlessly included him in their conversation about the usefulness of hero agencies.
Sugita popped away to get them drinks and snacks while they lounged, and in some mysterious way these two made this trip tolerable. Normally Hizashi would be pestering the hell out of him, but with Sugita there his loud, hyperactive husband had a receptive outlet to plug into. "Guys, should we head up for All Might's big speech?" Hizashi asked.
"No."
"Hell no," Sugita answered at the same as him then laughed about it. Shota smirked. "I'd rather drop myself off the top of this tower, ne, Aizawa?" He nodded.
"You two are exactly alike sometimes," Hizashi grumbled before taking a bite of his red and yellow frosted All Might cake.
"There's a place in the world for all this flashy hero shit, Yamada. Just not my world," Sugita quipped before inhaling her own cake. "Oh my goodness, Yamada! You should have heard Aizawa threatening me with a good time earlier. He was ready to drag me off to a sex dungeon for being a bad girl," Sugita drawled, leaning into Shota's side with a naughty grin and Hizashi burst out laughing. When the laughter let up, Sugita was still hanging off his shoulder and facing Hizashi in front of them. And not for the first time, Shota found he didn't mind it.
"Sho, what did you say?!" Hizashi asked, a little too eagerly and Shota rolled his eyes, arms crossed over his chest.
Sugita spoke up first, "Yamada, tell me something…" Hizashi's bright gaze moved to hers from behind his yellow-tinted glasses, his smile slipping at her suddenly serious expression as he nodded. "Does it bother you when I play around with Kayama like on the bus?"
Hizashi straightened up, lifting a hand to the back of his head with an awkward smile. Apparently this little rat was smart enough to figure out why Shota'd been annoyed with her on the bus. Hizashi answered with some hesitation, "I guess I do worry about it a little. I'm not sure you actually like Kayama like that, and I worry that she'll read more into it than you want her to…" Is that really the reason? Shota silently mused.
Sugita fell silent for nearly a minute, clearly thinking about it and Shota could tell Hizashi was on the verge of a total panic when she finally responded. "You're right… I wouldn't want her to think I'm interested in anything more than friendship." She pulled away from Shota's side, noticeably closing off a little. "I'm really not good at figuring out where to draw the line." Sugita suddenly turned to them with a little bow. "I'm really sorry! You're worried about Kayama, right? Ugh, I'm so stupid!" She really started to look upset. "I promise if she says anything else, I'll let her know up front I'm not interested. I gotta run to the washroom… I'll see you later!" She gave a little wave and disappeared with a soft pop.
"Sugita!" Hizashi called, reaching out to where she'd just been but she was already long gone. The only sign she'd been there at all was Hizashi's distraught expression and their half-eaten snacks. Shota shoved one of the hot sauce drizzled gyoza she'd brought him into his mouth while watching his husband have an internal meltdown. Mm… She'd brought Hizashi the same chocolate cake she'd chosen for herself. But not him. She knew he didn't like sweets.
"Hizashi, relax. Even if Sugita mistook our concern for her as concern for Kayama, she won't let it bother her for long," Shota explained smoothly, hardly batting an eye as he inhaled the rest of the gyoza. Surprised by how good it was.
"You really think so?" Hizashi's shoulders rose out of their slump as Shota nodded. "Wait… What do you mean 'our concern?'" Shota made an indeterminable sound in response to that. "Sho, use your words." Shota smirked at Hizashi's little show of impatience.
"I… Didn't particularly like Kayama messing around with Sugita like that. Sugita acts like a little perve and likes playing around a bit, but I could paint her into a corner with half a suggestive look. If someone actually came onto her, she'd either have no clue what was happening or accidentally teleport herself out of the country," Shota explained around his last few bites, before glaring at Hizashi's shocked expression.
"Sho… You really do worry about Sugita!?" Hizashi only barely managed to not tell everyone in the entire place before hastily lowering his voice. "She really is kinda clueless about that sorta thing, huh…" Hizashi sighed enough for the both of them, as if he wasn't just as clueless as she was sometimes. Shota smirked.
Of course, it was a UA field trip so everything went to shit when three kids went missing. One of whom had a camouflage quirk. The effect was transferable so he'd naturally taken his friends on a little off-limits jaunt around Might Tower.
"Ugh, kids are great, huh guys?!" Sugita exclaimed, bouncing on her heels and looking like the excitable elf she was. "Never a dull moment!" The rest of the gathered teachers groaned and naturally Shota took charge, like always.
"Sugita since you're so happy about this, you go round up the brats," Shota expected some groaning at his words. If he'd appointed anyone else, they likely would have bit his head off.
"Hai!" She immediately replied with a serious nod, reminding Shota that Sugita… Link wasn't just a colleague. She was a teammate. Of their three-man team of which he was team leader. She'd proven herself to be just as good on a team as she was solo. Like a trained soldier. That's cause despite everything, she was a trained soldier, and she trusted him. He never took that trust for granted. Nor would he ever.
"Ai-Aizawa-sensei?" a tiny voice drew his gaze and he found himself facing a small group of nervous 1-C kids. The speaker was a girl barely five feet tall with hair that looked a bit like black mist and inky black eyes. "Can you send someone other than Sugita-sensei to find our classmates? Um… Sugita-sensei is really great, but sometimes she's a bit… A bit…" They peeked around him, and Shota looked back…
"I'll make those little shit disturbers wish they'd never been born. My own students. I warned those brats, didn't I!?" Sugita was practically shouting in Kan's face. The towering, crimson-clad pro hero had his hands up and even looked slightly looked nervous.
"You did warn them, Sugita," Vlad King, the beast of a man literally simpered in front of Sugita's rage.
She whipped toward Ishiyama who startled, "can a teenager survive being trapped in cement, Ishiyama?"
Cementoss blinked, "I'm not sure that would be appropriate—
"I decide what's appropriate for my class, don't I?!" Sugita practically snarled like a savage wolf.
"Of course, aneki," Ishiyama cowed in an instant, bowing slightly forward. "If I leave their head and chest out, they should be able to survive for the bus ride at least…"
"Sugita!" At Shota's shout everyone froze. Even Hizashi and Kayama where they were herding kids onto the bus across the parking lot. "Come here," she did, appearing at his side with a little huff. "You are not allowed to maim your students when you find them," he ordered, voice low.
"Fine," she responded curtly before leaning toward her clearly worried students with a glare. "You brats pulled the big gun on me, huh?" She growled the words in a near whisper, "I won't forget this…" Then she was gone, and Shota found those very brats staring at him with stars in their eyes as if he'd just defeated the greatest of villain of their time. He sighed. Already sensing this was going to be a whole thing.
Ten minutes later two of the boys were on the ground, grovelling on the pavement and the third one with the pink scales appeared to be unconscious at Sugita's feet.
The entire bus watched as Aizawa-sensei caught Sugita-sensei in his capture weapon, eyes glowing red as he wrapped her up, using the weapon to strangle her till she passed as the kids scrambled onto the bus, dragging their limp friend with them. He left her like that for the entire trip back to UA, but at least she… Slept? The whole way...
